Arielle's Baptism Weekend

My baby was baptized this past weekend! Can't believe she's that old! We had a very nice weekend. Grandmom & Granddad Lovelace came down from South Jordan and our dear friends Brent, Julie & Anna Titcomb came all the way from Heber for Arielle's special day. Arielle & Anna are the best of friends, true soul sisters- even the move across the state can't seperate them- they played just like old times. Saturday we went to the new splash park by the library downtown. Scott, Crystal & Mylie joined us there. The kids had a blast playing in the "river" especially. Then onto the baptism. It was a BIG stake baptism, 9 kids! Jim gave an excellent talk on the Holy Ghost (and compared it to an IPOD) great object lesson. I was suprised, when we walked into the baptism room we had some good friends there that I didn't even know were coming like Dave, Martha & Lauryn Kinzie, Heather & Jocelynn Green and Arielle's primary teacher Sister Harney & Arielle's friend from Primary Megan Sparks. The baptism went really smooth, then we went into a church classroom for the confirmation. Our Bishop (Bishop Daniels) did a great job conducting that little meeting. We had all the priesthood holders in the room come up and help with the confirmation. Jim did a beautiful job again. Then the Bishop asked "Grandma" to give her testimony. Boy - he doesn't know my mom & the water works! She did a GREAT job keeing herself composed and gave a beautiful testimony which contained our family's conversion story. After the meeting we went back to the house for pizza (Arielle's choice of course), salad & cheesecake. It was a VERY nice weekend. Missed Ash & Jules' families though! Sunday Arielle wore her baptism dress to church & received recognition in sacrament as the bishopric presented her with a nice BOM with a note from them in in. She was also recognized in Primary with a song "I Like to Look for Rainbows". I think it was a very special occasion for her and we're very proud of her!